Science 101: How do plants move?

by: William C. Robertson, Ph.D.

Just as with any organism, simple growth causes plants to move, but we’re going to focus on movements that are unique to plants and, in some cases, pretty creepy. Sorry for the pun. Here the author describes a bunch of plant movements and then explains the mechanism for a few of them.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 9/1/2009Stock # sc09_047_01_64Volume 047Issue 01

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